Word: utrillo
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...TIME. July 28, 1961). Tipped off by an anonymous letter to France's Minister for Cultural Affairs Andre Malraux, police found the robbers' cache stashed away in a dilapidated barn 50 miles west of Paris. The $1,500,000 worth of art, including works by Matisse, Dufy, Utrillo and Bonnard, had come through the ordeal almost unscathed; among the rolled-up canvases, only two were slightly damaged...
...living masters-Miró, Giacometti or Balthus, for instance-the place to go is the gallery owned by Pierre Matisse, son of Painter Henri Matisse. The Perls Galleries represent Calder and Archipenko, and they do a reputable business in "painters of the Picasso generation" like Braque, Modigliani, Soutine and Utrillo. Catherine Viviano on East 57th Street is strong on modern Italians like Afro and Cremonini, but she also represents the surrealist Kay Sage and the estate of Max Beckmann...
...University of Iowa (his most irksome course is, naturally, Anglo-Saxon-a sly touch of the kind Roth is best at). There Gabe meets Paul and Libby Herz, a morose young couple living in a water-stained barracks apartment furnished chiefly with smudged paper-ungraded exams, piled paperbacks, Utrillo reproduction tacked to the wall. Their poverty is merely the standard lower academic kind, but the Herzes are more than usually miserable. He is Jewish, she was born Catholic, and their bitter parents cut off both love and loans when they married. Worse, Libby is a sickly girl, the sort whose...
...years the late Werner Heldt was called "the Utrillo of Berlin," a tag that enraged him all the more because it was based on the shallow observation that both he and Utrillo painted city streets. Both also drank. Yet that deprecatory comparison was about the measure of Heldt's renown at the time of his death seven years ago. This week Heldt is enjoying a sudden spurt of fame as the key figure of a new, nonabstract "Berlin School." The critical applause comes from a show in Wiesbaden of the collection of rich Machine-tool Maker Kurt Brandes...
With fake Utrillos appearing on the market almost daily, the French impressionist's splenetic widow, Lucie Valore Utrillo, 63, happily incinerated 30 recently uncovered forgeries in the garden of her Montmartre home. While Lucie grandly called the ten-minute conflagration the salvation of her henpecked husband's reputation, a few witnesses cattily concluded that she was just trying to protect the market value of her collection (a recent Utrillo auction price: $52,000), insisted that the longtime alcoholic painter-in order to earn the purchase price of more liquor than his wife allowed him-had moonlighted a great...